196. * did they reply to me but "we cannot." Who these were around me, I do not know, but I think they were many. 5312. Aaron himself, who later became the high priest, now performed those offices for the first time, but for the devil, whom he worshipped. Was he, then, not most unclean, even though the high priest? And that Jehovah God dwelt in the midst of their uncleanness, [see] Leviticus Chapter 16 verse 16. * Could not what was most unclean, then, portray what is most holy, and therefore could not a symbolic Church exist among those who could never be the chosen? Thus it was in no wise because of them, but because of their portrayal of the children of the True Israel, etc. etc.* * In the original, this last sentence is stressed by the word "Obs." written twice in the margin.